Considering the 7970 was available months ago, currently tests within 5%of 680 performance according to reviews, overclocks to higher performance than 680's and now costs less it is more of a shame on Nvidia.

Its hard to believe since you don't have pictures and screenshots of proof, but it then again according to benchmarks from tweaktown the GTX670 looks nuts! I dont see it winning by 20FPS or more though. Not even the 680 is pullin that.

Considering the 7970 was available months ago, currently tests within 5%of 680 performance according to reviews, overclocks to higher performance than 680's and now costs less it is more of a shame on Nvidia.

Ive been reading leaked benches online that it is... if so then kepler has a massive bottleneck somewhere.

And people have been trying to figure out how thats even technically possible. Its looking like it though. Time to start saving for an upgrade.

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From my readings is that the GTX 680 and 670 have an internal throttling down when temps reach a certain # or when the bios tells the fan its suppose to be at 80%. <-- Thats seams where everyones reporting hitting the ceiling.

The 670s that are on the 680 pcbs are doing better due to the missing array and the improved cooling and are able to be cooled more due to the missing array and improved cooler. Some owners with Liquid cooled 680s are achiving same OC as the 670 OC cards have. People are still try'n to figure out the bios

Considering the 7970 was available months ago, currently tests within 5%of 680 performance according to reviews, overclocks to higher performance than 680's and now costs less it is more of a shame on Nvidia.

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You forget the fact that the 680 can easily be OCd by around 15~20%, making it a much faster card than the 670, both cards are awesome, so no shame here really

The 7970 can be OCd insanely too, and is an awesome card as well, trading punches with the 680, but the fact that it was released at such high price for its overall relative performance, allowed Nvidia to price their mid range cards as high end parts, and now both early adopters of the 7970, and the 680 had to literarily pay the price for that, so you could say that users from the red camp and the green camp got bit in the ass this generation

Now we know what Intel and Nvidia were treading, they said they were trading technology information like 1.5 or 2 years ago.

I've been looking to upgrade too for a while now since the beginning of the year, and it appears to me if i go nvidia again this time nothing less than GXT670, coz i do not want anything with less than 256bit memory bus.